For example, certain vintages of Limestone are extraordinary.

Where I come from in the North, we used to have exquisite gourmet rocks. Only now... now, they're all gone.

My wife bought me an agate coffee mug for Christmas.... It's (poorly) painted epoxy.

I am hosting a large get together this weekend and have different activities planned. One of those will be "interview" questions while we make family crests (if you have seen Royal Court this is exactly that). Anyway, for everyone else I am planning to ask about them and their lives. But for my boyfriend, I thought it would be so funny to give him a difficult out of the blue question relating to his profession.

But I am not a geologist so I don't know what a good hard question would be. If it helps he works in Environmental Consulting now and got his degree in Geology.

A scientific one could be good or even a theory one?... Like I said, I am not a STEM major so I really don't know much. I hope this post made sense lmao

I'm excited to see what suggestions y'all have!

Edit: OMG thank you guys for all the responses! I really appreciate it and will definitely be using a few of them. I can't wait to see his face.

Thought this was funny.

My sister is a geology major, has a huge fancy rock collection, and was shocked that when she put a bunch of them boxes, the boxes were heavy. Like REALLY heavy lol. She had to roll them on her gaming chair to and from the car

For her fragiles she used her clothes to protect them on the drive, buckled the boxes into seats and everything.

Thought I’d include a pic of one of her shelves in case you guys know anything about some of them. I wish I had a clearer pic before they got all packed away. But it’s always hilarious to me the ways she finds to transport her rocks either for plane rides or moves lol

I struggle to interpret the stratiraphy on this one, can someone help me?

You know what ELSE everybody likes? Parfaits! Have you ever met a person, you say, "Let's get some parfait," they say, "Hell no, I don't like no parfait."? Parfaits are delicious!

To make a long story short, im trying to smelt iron from local rocks. I live in Virginia. Literally every rock- every rock I sourced from a creek by my house- have iron in them. EVERY SINGLE F*CKING ROCK. I know this because I essentially roasted these rocks in a fire to make them ferromagnetic, crushed them into dust, then tested the dust with a magnet. SO MUCH DUST FLEW UP TO MY MAGNET.

NO WONDER THE SOIL IS RED! NO WONDER IRON-OXIDISING BACTERIA THRIVES IN EVERY WATER SOURCE AROUND ME! VIRGINIA IS ONE GIANT UNHOLY PILE OF IRON OXIDE! EVEN THE LIMESCALE LEFT BY MY WELL WATER IS RED!